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Exit Outlook 2007, Enter Thunderbird 2

Started by Rahul Gaitonde · 9 months ago

So I moved from Outlook to Mozilla Thunderbird this weekend. Though I’d been looking for an Outlook replacement for a while, the Nokia Synchronizer app (which I use heavily) worked only with Outlook, so that kept me from moving.

Things came to a head Saturday morning, thou ... Continue reading »

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  • Venkat

    1 year ago

    I am glad that you ditched Outlook for Thunderbird. I have using Thunderbird since God knows when. It is fast, easy to you and best part fully customizable. Ever since I started using it I have had 100s of computer crashes, resulting in 100s of OS re-install and changes. Never have I had any problems getting my mail,contacts and appointments back to the way they were before and all this was so easy. Only thing I am waiting for, is a mobile device with Thunderbird in it. I do not know of any. If you have any suggestions. Please feel to email me.
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  • Rahul Gaitonde

    1 year ago

    I'm not sure how long I'll stick to Thunderbird, Venky. I'm not enjoying the experience too much.

    More on that in an update to this post.
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  • Bipin

    1 year ago

    hmmm..reading your post i was quite impressed and wanted to ask you directly as to what protocol you were using for mail downloading. I am more than positive that your experience using thunderbird would be really great from all perspective except...the mail downloading part. If you were to use pop3 there isn't much of a problem cause you don't need a server copy...but IMAP would be a drag and not something I prefer running on my office laptop. BTW it works well on my desktop where I constantly poll my mail server and also ensure that I download the mail for off-line use.I've used multiple other mail clients and with all I have the same problem. IMAP as a protocol was not built for speed. Infact with Evolution I tried OWA (Outlook Web Access), where it polls the exchange server through web. This was also a drag. Unfortunately exchange needs Outlook....after all that is how they keep people like me from moving to linux.
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  • Rahul Gaitonde

    1 year ago

    Bipin,

    i.) I've never been an IMAP fan for precisely that - performance and drag.

    ii.) Should prob. have updated this post. Lost all my data when my hard disk crashed a few weeks ago. Have moved almost to an almost exclusively online lifestyle, and I daresay it's working well.

    Details on how I migrated my life online here: http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/2008/04/14/moving-...
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